John Grisham earned a reputation as a best-selling author of legal thrillers, and while "The Boys of Biloxi" has a lot of legal undertones, it is much more than that. It looks at the development of the coast of Mississippi and how it evolved from a seafood producing power to a resort town with a seedy underbelly fueled by gambling, prostitution, drug running, bootlegging, even contract killings. In this book, Grisham tracks two families who grew up together, but end up on opposite sides of the law. In the end, they are faced with very difficult decisions based on their actions.